Word: dentistly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Until James Edwards, 54, took over, the job of Energy Secretary was one of the most serious, controversial and demanding in the Cabinet. Now the main question is when the slow-talking dentist, who is probably the most amusing man in the Cabinet but sometimes is considered a bit of a joke, is going to go back home and, perhaps, run for Governor of South Carolina. Reagan often ridiculed the Energy Department during his campaign, saying that it had never produced a barrel of oil. He has pledged to abolish the agency and get the Government out of the energy...
This kind of thing replaces the Herbie the Dentist business and the abominable snowman odyssey in the TV version, which is probably a plus since the record is consequently only the size...
Soon Ethel is harder at work than usual as a go-between. Chelsea arrives with her new lover, Bill (well played by Dabney Coleman), a dentist whose laid-back manner does not hide a will hard as a platinum inlay. Then there is his 13-year-old son, Billy (Doug McKeon, who gets the bravado, vulnerability and candor of adolescence just right). He is toughing out a feeling that since Mom and Dad divorced he is essentially homeless, that the idea of dumping him with the old folks while Dad and Chelsea go to Europe is desertion...
...billion budget, for example, more than half goes to the production of nuclear weapons and the filling of the country's strategic petroleum reserve; neither program will be curtailed. Energy Secretary James Edwards, who is already planning to resume his career as a South Carolina dentist, estimates that when his department is fully dismantled-in about two years-the total saving will be less than $7 billion...
Some, however, could not conceal their impatience. Said James Kehr, a Helena dentist and avid bird hunter: "I think it's high time that the government quits protecting me from myself. I think the public is scared to death, but unjustifiably...